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Colorado School Suspends 17-Year-Old After She Posted a Non-Threatening Gun Photo...
Reason ^ | October 24, 2019 | Noah Shepardson

Posted on 10/24/2019 12:09:33 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Colorado School Suspends 17-Year-Old After She Posted a Non-Threatening Gun Photo With Her Older Brother

She didn't break the law or threaten anybody, but her school still panicked.

A tongue-in-cheek post from a Colorado teen about a trip to a shooting range got her suspended from high school.

On Oct. 11, Endeavor Academy, a public school in Centennial, Colo., suspended 17-year-old senior Alexandria Keyes for five days after she posted a picture of herself and her older brother on the social media app Snapchat. The two are shown holding guns and the photo is captioned, "Me and my legal guardian are going to the gun range to practice gun safety and responsible gun ownership while getting better so we can protect ourselves while also using the First Amendment to practice our Second Amendment."

The picture in question depicts Alexandria and her older brother, an Army veteran, wearing shemaghs (scarves popular in Middle Eastern cultures that are also used by some members of the military) posing in front of a Confederate flag and flipping off the camera while holding guns. In a statement to The Gun Writer, Kelley Moyer, Alexandria's mother, said that the shemagh her daughter wore was a gift from her brother.

Alexandria tells Reason that she never anticipated being suspended for taking the picture.

"Guns are huge in my family, they're normal to us," Alexandria said. It was a big surprise to her and her mother when police showed up at their house to investigate her as a potential threat.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; colorado; education; guncontrol; guns; hysteria
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Its a bloody photograph people. Nothing illegal about it - at all.

Sue the school. I swear even freepers clutch their pearls these days.


21 posted on 10/24/2019 12:24:26 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: LouAvul

It is refreshing to young people acting like real Americans... Only a snowflake clown would find it questionable...


22 posted on 10/24/2019 12:28:35 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Tallguy

I think we should suspend freedom of speech for all those who misuse our apostrophe’s


23 posted on 10/24/2019 12:30:45 PM PDT by golux
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To: SuperLuminal; TheTimeOfMan

And if they turned around and shot up the school, would you still feel the same way about the photo?


24 posted on 10/24/2019 12:30:46 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Top photo is pretty funny. They’re obviously trying to cram as many lib pokes in one picture as they can.


25 posted on 10/24/2019 12:36:12 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: yesthatjallen

she was flipping off everyone with a gun in her hand...

she was suspended for not being too bright.


26 posted on 10/24/2019 12:38:25 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If I were that family I’d hire the biggest baddest MF attorney and sue them all the way to the Supreme Court. Even if I had to mortgage the house. This is beyond stupid for a school to treat an American citizen like this. I hope one of the gun organizations step in to help.


27 posted on 10/24/2019 12:41:23 PM PDT by moovova
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To: yesthatjallen

Very stupid thing to do on their part, they do gun owners a disfavor. Frankly, anyone that does that in this day and age is a little unstable. Don’t feel sorry for them at all.


28 posted on 10/24/2019 12:41:45 PM PDT by GulfMan
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To: Don Corleone

Colofornia


29 posted on 10/24/2019 12:43:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: EEGator

Her brother is a veteran, probably picked them up overseas... I have some prayer rugs laying around cause I think they are kinda pretty looking, not cause I’m a muslim.


30 posted on 10/24/2019 12:46:09 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: TheZMan

“And if they turned around and shot up the school...”

Was that their intention? You seem to be able to tell the future...please tell us.


31 posted on 10/24/2019 12:46:45 PM PDT by moovova
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To: yesthatjallen

Good kids.


32 posted on 10/24/2019 12:48:36 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: moovova

What was the intention of every other idiot that posted pictures like this to social media, and then shot up a school or elsewhere?

My question stands.


33 posted on 10/24/2019 12:49:10 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: TheZMan

You should change your tampon. I think you have toxic shock.


34 posted on 10/24/2019 12:50:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Don Corleone

“Colorado is nothing more than California Lite.”

It’s not Kali Lite anymore. The State is racing to beat Kali.


35 posted on 10/24/2019 12:51:51 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: teeman8r
she was flipping off everyone with a gun in her hand... she was suspended for not being too bright.

Just curious, since gangs use guns daily in the U.S., are kids suspended from school for flashing gang signs? Or is that perfectly A-OK in public schools?

36 posted on 10/24/2019 12:59:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: The Toll

If white kids want a future, they better all get this way. Fast!


37 posted on 10/24/2019 1:01:50 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: EEGator

This first picture is simply asking for trouble. No surprise the school acted.


38 posted on 10/24/2019 1:04:07 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Look at the photo. With the masks and flag in the background? It was stupid of them to post that. In today’s climate, had the school not looked into this it would have been much worse. I don’t like it. It was probably innocent, but there’s been too many instances where post like this were ignored and later regretted. The kids should have known better.


39 posted on 10/24/2019 1:07:24 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Reno89519

I don’t know how they even got the picture.
I thought Snapchat disappears after 5 seconds.
People were sending tons of nude pics since they would go away...


40 posted on 10/24/2019 1:09:04 PM PDT by EEGator
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